- ISBN13: 9781932595239
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- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
Here is the unseen America of government facilities and installations protected by a wall of secrecy, deception, and misinformation. It includes huge, isolated areas (some larger than the states of Connecticut and Rhode Island), along with innocuous office buildings located in the middle of major cities. This “other America” has an enormous impact on your life, but you probably have little idea of its extent, scope, and power.
This book invites you to visit this top-secret America. Listings are by state, and each facility/site entry gives its history, discusses the activities carried on there, explores various rumors, and provides maps and directions to every location.
Author Harry Helms visited and photographed a number of sites in this book. None of the intelligence here was taken from classified sources; everything was on the public record and obtained by patient digging. Since the 9/11 attacks, much of this information was removed from public dissemination. To those who think a book like this discloses vital government secrets, Helms says: “Get real. If I can find this stuff out, the Russians, Chinese, and various terrorist groups also found it out a long time before I did.”
Adventurous travelers and truth-seekers will want to know how to navigate within top-secret America.
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I’ll admit it: I bought Top Secret Tourism because I loved the full title… Your Travel Guide to Germ Warfare Laboratories, Clandestine Aircraft Bases, and Other Places in the United States You’re Not Supposed to Know About. It lives up to its title. Helms did his homework on this one. It’s an eyeopener, just how many billions taxpayers spend on top secret facilities in this country, how World War II created what Helms calls Top Secret America when previously there was no national security state. Helms traveled all across the country to get as close to as many of these facilities as he could, including the famous Area 51 in Nevada. Particularly disturbing is the access one can get to former–and still radioactive–atomic test sites from the 1950s. Top Secret Tourism isn’t for everyone, but if you’re into military stuff and secret stuff, you’ll love this one… and wait’ll you read about HAARP!
Rating: 5 / 5
This book covers the places like area 51, army bases and the fenced off area the goverment owns.It is scarey what goes on there and a few of the goverment programs that went on and what they cost, like when the govermentdecided to see if they could use atomic bombs for excavation and the insane results a normal person would expect .They did it more than once!!!!!
Rating: 5 / 5
This is a really good book for those ‘out of the way’ vacation spots. No matter where you want to go on your vacation, there’s an interesting ‘little known’ place nearby!
Rating: 4 / 5
This is one of those books you have to get for the conspiracy theorists in the family. Fun book to read and have.
Rating: 4 / 5
The doublespeak in the book description is double-plus head-spinning:
“Here is the unseen America of government facilities and installations protected by a wall of secrecy, deception, and misinformation.”
So these facilities are protected by secrecy, deception, and misinformation. Yet the description continues:
“None of the intelligence here was taken from classified sources; everything was on the public record and obtained by patient digging.”
So these sites are on the public record. Yet the description continues:
“Since the 9/11 attacks, much of this information was removed from public dissemination.”
So we’re back to these sites being protected by secrecy, deception, and misinformation. After all, since 9/11 we’ve been at war with radical Islamic fascists.
Yet the description continues:
“To those who think a book like this discloses vital government secrets, Helms says: “Get real. If I can find this stuff out, the Russians, Chinese, and various terrorist groups also found it out a long time before I did.”"
I live right next door to Fort Detrick in Maryland and it’s so comforting to know that terrorists won’t have to deal with secrecy, deception, and misinformation to figure out which targets to strike. They can find it all in Top Secret Tourism!
Thanks, Harry! Spend your 30 pieces of silver wisely.
UPDATE: Harry’s reply to my review says I was dishonest because I hadn’t read his book before writing a review. Harry, if your book description isn’t like the book, say so. Anyway, if somebody reading this is interested, I respond more fully in the comments section of Harry’s review.
Rating: 1 / 5